How the World Got into the Computer coffee as their ashes are scattered

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and the definition of identity more associated with this in a realm where the realities of the medium are shifting

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How the World Got into the Computer coffee as their ashes are scatteredAround 1950, computers learned how to sort numbers and words. Immediately, many questions arose. What could be done with such a machine? How should its space be set up and governed? Moving the world into the computer meant rethinking many things. Bank transactions, spa guests, and terrorists, to name but a few, had to be formatted so that they could be dealt with in the machine. In doing so, managers, programmers, and users created a digital world